Naruto Oneshots + Imagines

Like This (Kakashi Hatake x Might Guy) (NSFW)

Kakashi' Hatake's legs dangle off of the edge of the Hokage monument as he glances at Might Guy, who is sitting next to him. The other shinobi is distracted, staring at the string of stars that litter the pitch black sky like fairy lights, but Kakashi doesn't mind.

"It's been more than two weeks since you've been in town, Sukea! I wasn't expecting to see you so suddenly," Guy starts. His deep onyx gaze is still straight forward in a way that has the starlight shining beautifully against his sun-kissed skin. On one hand, Kakashi wants Guy to be looking at him rather than at the village they've both seen a million times over. On the other, he doesn't, because Guy wouldn't really be looking at him. Rather, Guy would be looking at Sukea, the alter ego and disguise that Kakashi has been fooling him with for over a year now. Though Kakashi has done a good job of hiding the truth thus far, there are evenings like this one where he feels as if Guy can see straight through all of it. "But I'm glad you invited me out here tonight even though you only just got back. It's good to see you."

"It's good to see you as well," Kakashi says, swallowing tightly. He offers up a forced smile and runs a hand through his hair to make sure that the brown, fluffy locks are still perfectly in place as they should be with his partial-transformation jutsu. A full transformation would be much easier to manage for such a risky situation, as he wouldn't have to worry about the purple face-tape beneath his eyes and the matching eye-shadow that cover his scar or the makeup on his eyebrows potentially coming off, but he spends so much time with Guy in this form that the full transformation would eat up all of his chakra. "I missed you."

"I missed you, too."

The words should make Kakashi's heart flutter, but they don't. They're not meant for him- they're meant for Sukea, this fake person that he's created so selfishly.

There are times- like right now- where it hurts. There are nights where Kakashi goes home and finds himself restless with the pain of wishing that Guy was in love with him and only him rather than with Sukea, who Guy is convinced is an entirely separate person. There are days where Kakashi drowns in guilt because he's purposely deceiving his best friend.

But, he's happier like this, and so is Guy.

Because like this, he isn't Kakashi Hatake. He is not the man with a tragic past full of death and failure, nor is he the shell of a person he's confined himself to be. Like this, he doesn't avoid intimacy at all costs. He doesn't push those closest to him away and spend all of his free time in solitude.

Like this, he is simply Sukea. No last name to remind him of his father. No trauma. Just a traveling photographer with a loving heart and a knack for mischief.

For all Guy knows, Sukea comes from a boring nuclear family who lives in a far off civilian town.

For all Guy knows, he's at least a little bit normal- and Kakashi is desperate to keep it that way.

So, when Guy stands and offers a hand to help him up- even though he still isn't used to another man's hands being used to lift him up rather than to hurt him- he takes it, stands, and wraps an arm around Guy's waist with a smile- because he's going to convince Guy that he is truly like this for as long as he can.

"So, shall we take this to your place?" Sukea says, knowing full well that he could never take Guy back to his shitty little apartment.

As always, Guy grins down at him and pulls him closer.

"I'd like that."

~

The next morning, Kakashi slips out of Guy's apartment window and makes his way home before the older man can wake up and convince him to go out for breakfast. He leaves no indication of when Sukea will be back in town to make things easier on himself and crashes the moment he gets back to his own apartment for a long nap.